Advent To Candlemas Reading Competition (2013-2014)

[AnneLine]

Da browsers are driving me CRAZY!   I have several websites that I visit regularly (Summit Dominicans, for example) that WON'T work properly without IE, and others that won't work properly unless I am NOT using IE (Phatmass).   GRRRRR!  I think it is some incompatible upgrades to a flash program or some such.  Idunno but it is a P A I N!!!!!!  I've been having a lot of the same kind of problems you had with the Welsh book, ComingHome.

 

:crazy:

 

And... if you liked the Welsh book, you might like Journey to Carith by Peter Thomas Rohrbach and/or Springs of Carmel by Peter Slattery.....  I'd be curious to know what you thought of the Springs of Carmel vs. The Carmelite Way as a short intro to Carmelite spirituality & history.... the Rohrbach book is about 50 years old but is still considered one of the better researched books on the Discalced Carmelite order up thru time of Vatican II (was written in about 1963)... but get one of the modern reprints and read the INtro because they have revised early Carmelite History in light of more recent historical and archeological research, so some of the very early sections on the order are now considered to be inaccurate... and they now stress the LACK of division between the O.Carm and O.C.D. order (and correctly encourage people to use 'O.Carm' rather than 'Calced' when referring to the ancient Order of Carmelites (vis a vis the Discalced or Teresian Carmelites).

 

:pray:

 

AND as far as the end of the competition....

 

 

Absolutely, you got the time right... we have a ROLLING closing deadline of midnight (i.e.,, END OF DAY) on Feb 2 (i.e., between Feb 2 and Feb 3) WHEREVER in the world you are.

 

It seems the fairest solution to our literally world wide group!   I'll give everyone a few days to get in their final totals as of your Midnight, and then I will post the final numbers maybe the following weekend?  Does that seem fair?

 

Does it seem fair to you all for me to give the 'student reading credit' to all those who got the final exam credit last December?   (Except for BG... you don't have anything to read for final exams... yet.)  If you wanna claim your prep for semester reading (and as someone who preps a class, I know it is a LOT of reading!), just document it for us...

 

I'm getting close to done on Story of a Soul and Dancing White Fish....  :bible: :bible:

[cartermia]

Student credit for me please. And I finished Romeo and Juliet. I didn't care for it but I didn't think I would in the beginning.

 

Romeo and Juliet - 96 pages

This World We Live In by Pfeffer - 252 pages

Allegiant by Roth - 544 pages

Confessions: The Private School Murders by Patterson - 448 pages

 

 

I might finish a few others by the Sunday but we will see... :evil:   :p

[BG45]

Legion by Dan Abnett (416 pages)

[AnneLine]

I'm ready to claim the 'Liturgy of the Hours' for Advent to Candlemas.  Very pleased that this committment has resulted in an almost perfect run....  and a well-established daily habit of prayer, even on weekends!   Pray that I continue it!!!!!  550 Pages!!!!

 

Laughing Whitefish - well done period courtroom drama by the author of Anatomy of a Murder.  RECOMMENDED.  246 Pages

 

Perfect Joy of St. Francis - A beautifully written biography of St. Francis.  Obviously a lot of it was drawn from the Little Flowers of St. Francis (stories told about him by his first friars) and it shares the same winsome approach to Francis... but beautifully captures his spirit.  RECOMMENDED.  280 Pages

 

Still chunking away at St. Therese' Story of a Soul, but not sure if I will make it... .gonna try!  Jt is still my challenge book, but we'll see!!!

 

AND....

 

JUST GOT IN THE MAIL the book club book - The Fault in our Stars by John Green!!!!!   It's worth 3x credit if I can get it read by Sunday midnight, and I'm goonna try!!!!!!!  318 pages (x3 if can do it....)

 

And I think I have some partly completed books around the house... may dig 'em out & finish 'em up!

 

Come on... we can do this!   ONWARD to the summit!!!!!

 

 

 

 

[AnneLine]

We are at 92,842 pages documented.    We can certainly find another 8,000 pages!!!!   DOCUMENT please!!!!!

[ChristinaTherese]

I'm not going to claim full LoTH credit.... Maybe partial though. Like 50-75%. I've not been that good, and then I've basically dropped it entirely these last couple of weeks. I do like it, but it just doesn't fit my life right now all the time. Over breaks it's good, but during school.... I dunno.

[xTrishaxLynnx]

Will be done with The Fault in Our Stars before end of day tomorrow.

[AnneLine]

I'm not going to claim full LoTH credit.... Maybe partial though. Like 50-75%. I've not been that good, and then I've basically dropped it entirely these last couple of weeks. I do like it, but it just doesn't fit my life right now all the time. Over breaks it's good, but during school.... I dunno.

 

So.... you wanna claim....

 

50% credit?     200

66% credit?     250

75% credit?     300

 

Your call!!!!

 

Way to go, Tricia!!!!!   that will be worth 318*3 or 954 when you are done!

 

How about the rest of you????

[Basilisa Marie]

I'm 431 pages into Lord of the Rings. :) 

[maximillion]

Sisters of the East End by Helen Batten - documentary/fiction thingy about the Anglican Sisters of St John the Divine who lived and nursed in the East End of London in the 40's and onwards.   312 pages.

 

Stumbling on Happiness Daniel Gilbert  398 pages

 

The Thing, Why I am Catholic by GK Chesterton 184 pages

 

50 Philosophy Ideas You Really Need to Know  by Ben Dupre, 310 pages.

 

Death Comes to Pemberly by PD James 352 pages

 

Are you adding the LOTH? I have no idea how many pages that would be but I pray the whole LOTH most days so..........

[maximillion]

Oh, and I am doing an online philosophy course with lots of texts and excerpts to read but I have no idea how many pages.....started on 2nd Jan and it's ongoing.

[maximillion]

Unveiled - The Hidden Lives of Nuns. Cheryl L Reid.  330 pages.

 

 

I am sure there is more, I am an avid reader.....let me look about the room a bit, there are books everywhere.

 

What Does It All Mean - A Short Intro to Philosophy by Thomas Nagel   112 pages.

 

Memoir Writing for Dummies 364 pages.

 

What Is 360 degree Feedback  by Mark Miller  40 pages.

 

Amish Values for Your Family by Suzanne Woods. 192 pages.

 

There, I think that's it.

 

[Comingback]

Last night finished A Distant Prospect by Annette Young.  610 pages

[TheresaThoma]

I think I will claim a 50% LOTH credit as well. I have a book in progress and I will see if I can get it finished. I think we can do 100.000!

[ChristinaTherese]

I think I'll take 50% for LOTH. I know I've done more than that (all the offices for a few weeks at least), but I'd rather claim less than more.

 

Also, I finished A Distant Prospect, so I think I'll claim the 610 pages that Amazon lists.

 

And now I have A Tale of Two Cities and The Fault in our Stars waiting in the wings. I think I'll take The Fault in our Stars first.... But I probably won't finish either before midnight tomorrow.

[AnneLine]

WOW!   Maximillion, thank you for rising out of the swamp where you live (saw your prayer request) and reading with us!!!

 

I calculated that Morning & Evening & Office of Readings and Night prayer is about 200 pages a month during last challenge.  That's a super-conservative estimate, it's probably closer to 300 pages.   But it does add up to a chunk of reading with God and that is worth something!   So... you can figure out how much of that you want to claim, but you're easily able to get 400 pages for Advent - Candlemas (or a percentage) if desired.

 

I think it can be an inducment to do a more regular praying of the hours.  CT, when I was in school, my spiritual director said it is really hard to get the LOTH schedule to jive with the academic schedule UNLESS one is in an environment where everyone stops to pray it.  (That's why St. Dominic had his friars do sung office, BTW... to get their heads out of their books!!!!)  :bible: :pray: :bible:

 

Any books COMPLETED during the period Dec 1 thru Feb 2 midnight wherever you are can be counted.   (And I think almost completed is count-able).   We did decide a while ago, however, that partial books don't count.... because otherwise most of us could claim half of the library of congress!!!  Sadly, because I don't think I'm gonna be able to finish Study Ed of Story of a Soul... :(

 

BUT I THINK WE CAN DO 100,000 TOO!!!!!!

[Comingback]

I've been home from Tennessee for about an hour and have finished my St. Thomas!  Have been going slow and  steady and actually did it!

 

Shorter Summa, by St. Thomas Aquinas, 412 pages.  This was my challenge book.  

[AnneLine]

WOW!!!!  Nice!!!!!!    Do you want to designate another challenge?  You got about 30 hours...

 

you could still make a killing here...

 

:hehe2:  :coffee: :reaper: :bible:  :bible: :bible:  :reaper: :coffee:   :hehe2:

[AnneLine]

And... anyone object if we give all the students the 'student reading credit'?  

[Comingback]

The only book I'm working on is Fault and the knitting book I was reading for the St. Agnes challenge, which went ploomp.  The knitting book is not hard and is not something I've put off.  I still have to finish Opening to God, though.  Keep putting it down to read other stuff.  I'll consider that my challenge and see how it goes.  About a third of the way through Fault.